Collapsible box.



A. H. WILSON.

GOLLAPSIBLE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1912.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Oct.13, 1914.

Application filed April 1, 1912. Serial No. 687,575.

ToaZl whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, ALLISON H. WILSON, a citizen of the United, States, residing at Hamilton, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Collapsible Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to collapsible boxes 7 of the class adapted to be used as containers forwearing apparel or for other suitable purposes and the objects of my improvements are to rovide-a box consisting of a single sheet of straw board or other suitable material; to provide folding walls for the body and the cover; to connect the ends of adjacent walls with folding corners; to provide suitable corner fastenings for maintaining the walls in erected position; to provide the body with an inwardly inclined front wall for facilitating the closing of the cover thereover, and to provide simple and cheap construction com ined with facility of operation and especially adapted for the purposes intended. These objects may be attained in the following described manner as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectlve view of an erected collapsible box embodying my improve-- ments; Fig. 2 the box in collapsed position -showing in marginal dotted lines its pattern in sheet form; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of the box when erected, and Fig. 4, a detail.

showing one of the folding corners as maintained in erected position by means-of the movable tongue stop.

In the drawings, 1 represents the rectangular bottom provided with front and side walls 2 and 3 adapted to be folded thereon. The cover 4 is also provided with front and side walls 5 and 6 adapted to fold inwardly thereon. The walls 3 are disconnected at 7 from the adjacent ends of the corresponding walls 6. The rear wall 8 connects the rear edge of the cover with therear edge of the bottom on the folding lines 9 and. 11, and its end portions are connected with the adjacent ends of the cover walls 6 bymeans of the folding corners 12 being secured thereto in the ordinary manner. The front end portions of the side walls 3 and also 6 are formed with short tongues or stops 13 and are extended to form the folding corners 14 and 15 respectively. The corners 15 are folded on the diagonal lines 16 and secured on the outside of the adj acent, end ortions of the front wall 5 of the cover. he corners 14' of the walls '3 are folded on the oblique lines 17 and secured on the outside of the adjacent end portions of the 'front wall 2 of the box body and in such an an le that when the box is erected with the s1de walls 3 perpendicular to the plane of the bottom, the said front wall will be inclined in an inward direction from a plane perpendicular thereto, as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4. After the walls of the cover and the body are unfolded into the erected position the tongues 13 may be bent inwardly as shown in Fig. 4, into contact with the inner face of the corresponding front walls 2 and 5 for maintaining the box in the erected position. While the cover is referably integral with the body it may be formed of aseparate sheet'of material if desired and secured thereto.

In operation, when the box is erected as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the cover may be closed with the side walls 6 of the cover in contact with the outside of the body walls 3 of the body to prevent them from spreading. The tongues 13 can be used only where the corner folds 14 are placed on the outside of the front wall 2. The inclination of said front wall prevents any interference by the corner fold 14 with-the closing of the front wall 5 of the-lid thereover and with its edge in close contact with the bottom of said wall 2. The abutting of the ends ofthe tongue stops 13 against the inside of the respective ends of the corresponding front walls 2 and 5 serves to maintain the box and the cover in erected position as. shown 1n Figs. 1, 3 and 4. When the tongue stops are ent in an outward direction from engagement with the front walls, said walls may be folded in an inward direction together with the side walls into the collapsed position shown by solid lines in Fig. 2. When the side walls of the cover are being erected perpendicular thereto the folding corners 12 serve to automatically move andmaintain the rear wall 8 also perpendicular to the cover as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and the folding line 11 becomes the cover hinge.

Havm fully described my improvements, what I claim as my invention and'desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- 1. A collapsible box formed from an integral blank consisting of a bottom forming panel and a cover forming panel joined b a common rear wall; each of the said pane havin two side wallflaps and a front wall flap, t e side wall flaps having corner flaps, each corner flap havmg an oblique crease, the portion beyond which crease is secured to the corresponding front wall, the fold line joining each of the corner fla s of the pottom member with its side wall being oh- 1 ue. v

2. A collapsible box formed from an integral blank consisting of a bottom forming panel, and a cover forming panel joined by a common rear wall; each of the said panels having two side wall flaps and a front wall flap, the side wall flaps having corner flaps, each corner flap having an oblique crease, the portion beyond which crease is secured to the corresponding front wall, the fold line joining each of the corner flaps of the bottom member with its side wall being oblique, and corner tongue stops cut from the side walls with their free ends abutting against the front wall.

3. A collapsible box formed from an integral blank consisting of a rectangular bottom and four side wall flaps extending therefrom; two opposite side walls having oblique ends and the other two opposite side walls having corner flaps joined by a fold line, eachcorner flap having an oblique crease, the portion beyond which crease is secured to the corresponding adjacent wall and corner tongue stops cut from two opposited side walls with their cf'ree ends abutting against the corresponding adjacent walls.

4. A collapsible box formed from an integral blank consisting of a rectangular bottom and four side wall flaps extending therefrom; two ogposite side walls having corner flaps joine by an oblique fold line, each corner flap having an oblique crease, the portion beyond which crease is secured to the corresponding adjacent wall and corner tongue stops cut from two opposite side walls with their free ends abutting against the corresponding adjacent walls.

5. A collapsible box formed from an integral blank consisting of a rectangular bottom and four side wall flaps extending therefrom; two op osite side walls having oblique ends an the other two opposite side walls having corner flaps joined by an oblique fold line, each corner flap having an oblique crease, the portion beyond which crease is secured to the corresponding adjacent wall and corner ton two opposite side walls with their free ends abutting against the corresponding adjacent walls.

ALLISON H. WILsoN.

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